Blouse.



PATBNTED APR. 10, 1906.

A. G. HUTH.

BLOUSE. APPLIOATION FILED our. 2, 1905.

4 INVEJVTOR WI 1 A "ESSES swi IPATET FFI@IFL Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 10, 1906.

Application filed October 2,1905. Serial No- 280,861.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT G. I-IUTH, of OnondagaValley, in the county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Blouses, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to the class of blouses which are provided with means for drawing and tying the bottom of the blouse around the waist of the wearer.

The object of the invention is to provide a blouse of simple and inexpensive construction and which shall be neatly shirred and fitted around the entire waist by means of ordinary plain strings or tapes and shall retain its shirred and fitted shape after it is removed from the wearer, and thus always ready to be donned in a convenient and expeditious manner; and to that end the invention consists in the improved construction of the blouse hereinafter described and claimed,

and as illustrated. in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a fragmentary front view of a blouse embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a detached plan view showing the attachment of the shirring-strings, and Fig. 3 is an enlarged transverse section on the line X X in Fig. 2.

A represents the body of the blouse, which is formed with a hollow hem a extending around the entire bottom thereof and provided at opposite sides of its front opening 6 with buttons and buttonholes for closing the same in the usual manner.

The inner ply of the hollow hem a is provided with a single short slot 6 at a convenient distance from the front of the blouse, preferably at a short distance from one end of the hem, as shown in Fig. 2, and thus place the tied ends of the shirring-strings at the side of the waist, as shown at f in Fig. 1, and at the same time sufficiently remote from the front of the blouse to obviate annoying the wearer by the tied ends of the shirr-strings protruding from the bottom of the blouse.

d d represent the two strings or tapes by means of which my improved. blouse is shirred around the Waist of the wearer. These strings are inserted, respectively, into the two portions of the hollow hem a, extend ing in opposite directions from the slot 1). The inner ends of said strings are securely sewed to the blouse adjacent tothe vertical edges of the front opening 0 and preferably directly at the button and. buttonhole at the- In shirring and adjusting the blouse on the wearer the open front is to be closed and buttoned in the usual manner. Then the untied and free ends of the strings cl cl, protruding through the single slot b, are to be drawn sufficiently tight to gather the bottom of the blouse neatly and in a shirred condition around the waist of the person, and then by tying the said ends of the strings together, as shown at f in Fig. 1 of the drawings, the blouse is retained in its shirred and properly fitting condition.

The inner ends of the shirr-strings d d terminating at opposite sides of the front opening 0 allows the blouse to be removed from the wearer without disturbing the protruding tied ends of the shirr-strings, and thus the blouse is already shirred and fitted for subsequent wearing of the blouse.

What I claim as my invention is The improved blouse formed with a hollow hem extending around the bottom and to the vertical edges of the front opening of the blouse and provided with a single slot in the said hem remote from the front of the blouse, and two shirr-strings disposed in the hem and sewed at their inner ends to the blouse at 5 the bottom button and buttonhole of the front of the blouse, the free ends of the strings passing out through the single slot and retained thereby in proximity to each other for tying them together at the exterior of the blouse substantially as described and shown.

J. J. LAASS, L. H. FULMER. 

